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48 Cat Puns: Funny & Adorable Word Play for Cats

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Who doesn’t love a good pun? Cats might not appreciate them, but any cat lover will certainly appreciate a cheesy feline-inspired pun or turn of phrase. The very best puns are usually in the spur of the moment, but it doesn’t hurt to stock your pun repertoire with some of the very best (and worst) cat puns the internet has to offer. We’ve come up with some down below for your very discerning consideration.

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Paw and Fur-Related Puns

Some of the most paw-some cat puns relate to our feline friends’ little paws and sleek fur, and you’d be shocked how many ways you can fit the words into ordinary sentences. As a bonus, some can even work with dogs! Check out some of the best paw and fur-related cat puns for your immediate use below.

  • Fur-get about it
  • You’re pawsitively in-fur-iating
  • Paw-don me, are you fur real?
  • That’s just pawful!
  • Don’t fur-get to buy tuna at the store!
  • Isn’t that clawsome?
  • Paw-don my French
  • Use good paw-sture and sit up straight
  • Let’s just calm down and take a paws for a second
  • How fur-ightful!
  • That was a real faux-paw
  • I’m feeling a little claw-strophobic
  • That’s clawful!
  • Best fur-ends fur-ever
  • You’re my best fur-end in the world
  • It’s certainly paw-sible
  • You look fur-miliar
  • This seems fur-miliar…
  • That’s a bit too radi-claw for me
  • It’s the cat’s paw-jamas!
  • Live long and paw-sper
  • Please stop with these a-paw-lling puns at once!
  • Pretty paw-lease?
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Image By: Gorloff-KV, Shutterstock

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General Cat-Related Puns

Cats are much more than their paws, of course, and the puns don’t end there either. If you’re searching for the purr-fect pun for every occasion, you can’t miss out on the rest of our hiss-terical puns below. From meows, purrs, and more, cats are ripe for the pun picking. Write down your favorites and use them as captions to your heart’s content, and feel free to roll your eyes at the truly terrible ones.

  • You’ve gotta be kitten me
  • Happy purr-thday to you
  • You had me at meow
  • Whisker me away
  • What a cat-astrophe!
  • My cat is 100% litter-ate
  • You’re freaking meow-t!
  • What kind of car does a cat drive? A Fur-rari!
  • Don’t worry, be tabby
  • It’s as good as mew
  • I’m not feline so good today
  • Good meow-ning
  • How do you like me meow?
  • That’s a purr-fect idea
  • I’m gonna have a catnip-tion fit
  • Just hear meow-t here
  • I’m feline good today!
  • Someone’s got a cattitude today
  • You’re so a-mew-sing
  • It’s meow or never
  • You’ve got a purr-suasive purr-sonality
  • The time is meow!
  • I litter-ally can’t deal with this right now
  • Put your thinking cat on
  • We’ll go down in hiss-tory
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Image By: islam zarat, Shutterstock

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Final Thoughts

Puns are one of the most delightfully cheesy ways cat owners amuse themselves, and some of the puns aren’t even that bad. Whether you’re looking to wow your friends with the best and worst cat puns or just to amuse yourself and your feline friend at home, we hope we’ve been of some help.

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